I'm a 22 year old graduate origionally from Crewe, now livingin Birmingham having finished my studies at the
University of Birmingham. I studied Bioinformatics and achieved a 2:1 in my degree, which included a years proffessional placement at Pfizer, spent at their Research and Development complex in Sandwich, Kent.
I play the BBb Bass (Tuba, to those of you who are not musically inclined!), and I played in the University Brass Band from its founding in 2006 to 2010.
I enjoy playing FPSs (currently playing: Mass Effect, Half Life 2 Cinematic Mod and Bioshock), and other similar games. I also enjoy playing the Magic:The Gathering trading card game, and I am a DCI certified judge (level 1). I frequently officiate tournaments for it in the Birmingham and Stafford area.
I also work for His Dark Media as the message board administrator. I have been a member of that site since 2003 (When it was just HisDarkMaterials.org a fansite for Phillip Pullman's trilogy of that name), and was invited to help run it around 2005. Since then it has diversified, and is now a community-driven film site. We have been invited to several film premiers/screenings, including The Golden Compass, Twilight New Moon and The Butterfly Tattoo.
I bought a lovely 15-year old Seat Ibiza Salsa whislt I was at Pfizer. It's just swum through it's second MOT, despite being abused by me for a year, and is a little beast of a machine! Here, have a photo :)
My computer's specs are:
Processor: Intel i7 920 2.66Ghz (overclock pending after the thermal paste has settled!)
Ram: 6GB (3*2GV) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 (9-9-9-24) Ram
Harddrive: 1*250GB Seagate, 1*500GB Samsung, 1*2TB WD (+1*120GB Maxtor external disk - IT STILL LIVES AFTER 3/4 OF A DECADE :D)
Graphics: Gainward nVidea GTS250 1024MB DDR3 (Green Edition)
PSU: Powercool 1050W modular PSU
Cooling: Titan TTC-Nk34TZ/R/V2
OS: Dual Boot Ubuntu 9.10/Windows 7 (both 64-bit)
Case: Xclio Windtunnel
Monitor (main): Acer GD245HQ 23.6" 120Hz and Nvidia 3D vision kit
Monitor (secondary): Acer AL1711 17"
Laptop:
Asus eeepc 4G
IBM Thinkpad X41 (Not tablet edition)
